Bent County register., 1887-04-09

-Milt Adams bought n north
side Main street lot Wednesday and
will put up two-story building
twenty,four by one hundred feet.
e. j. Rabb will move his furni.
tnre store to the room below the
city hall next Tuesday until the new
building he is TO occupy is completed.
Col. +. Haren, western emigra-
ton agent for the Santa Fe road
with headquarters at Las Vegas,
New Mexico, was i'll town last Sat
urdsy.
Elder ]. y. Graves, from Mt.
Sterling, Illinois, arrived here last
week and is building residence.
IL. has charge of the Christian
canrch of Lamar.
Charlie Ross says the reason he
ran TO better for Mayor was his
tickets were being printed on type
writer aud when two were run off
the machine bssted. /
DR.. II. H. Arnold is setting q
row of trees aronnd his entire
quarter section, the Doctors claim
houe. This is AN enterprise we
would like to see others follow.
-Carpeaiers ere at work bnild-
ing the addition to our depot. The
depot platform is also TO be extend
ei to the water tank and new
platform bailt on west side of the
ware roOln.
Our iamher merchants can deliver
lumber at Villas Tor seven dollars
les on the thousand than the mer-
chants of Lamar can.-Granada
Exponent.
Rats!
-Gilbert MoQueary has made
arrangements to put street sprink-
l-rs on tue street as soon as the
sprinkers can lie got here. Me.
viii keep the streets wet down if
anybod, can.
The services at the hall on next
GSuuuiy VIII bc htlu 40 iS'tO"s.
Sunday school at 10 o'clock 4. NJ.
Preaching at IL a. NJ. and 7:45
II. N. \ cordial invitation is given
ali 10 attend. ii. l.. BEARDsLEY,
Pastor.
Our builders are delayed and
every body greatly annoyed by the
trouble the lumber nen have in
getting lumber. The fault is
charged to the uncertainty of the
rates under the Inter State COM
merce bill.
Elder J. b. Graves, of the
Christian church, will conduct re-
ligious services next Sunday morn
ing aud evening, on cast side OF
Main street second house south of
the Hewes House. Everybody is
invited to come. Bring hymn books.
The services ut the hall were
well'alten,led on last Sunday for a
stormy day and the exercises were
deeply interesting. Mr.. Chamber
lain evidently made very favorable
impression on the congregations and
will receive a hearty welcome when
ever he can return.
As was announced in last
weeks issue the Lamar State Bank
opened for business Monday morn
ing We have before fully spoken
of the officers and stock holders of
the corporation, and the bauk starts
out with a good business and the
full confidence of our people.
What n pity that two steel rails
make dividing line of our city.
How strange that two steel rails, al
most hidden by road bed, stand so
high in the imagination OF some
that they cannot look over them.
What a shame that the interest of
two or three men should affect the
entire community.
"Wednesday noon while the sky
was clear a whirl-wimd passed just
north of town that took up consid-
erable dust and started Kansas ten
derfeet for cellars. 1t was only
after they were repeatedly told that
cyclones were unknown in Colo
RADIO thst they could be induced TO
come to daylight once more.
The election passed off very
quietly Tuesday and was very salts
factory to the REGISTER with the
exception of the vote for mayor.
Circumstances known to the people
of Lamar and of no interest to out
siders changed vote after O'Clock
in the evening that elected MIR.
Rawlings. OF the six trustees they
were nearly all the same on three
tickets in the field. Five out of the